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Billions and billions : thoughts on life and death at the brink of the millennium

In Billions and Billions, Carl Sagan demonstrates his incredible ability to cut through the jargon and misinformation to help us make sense of the world around us as it prepares for the challenges of the coming millennium.

Billions and billions --
The Persian chessboard --
Monday-night hunters --
The gaze of God and the dripping faucet --
Four cosmic questions --
So many suns, so many worlds --
The world that came in the mail --
The environment : where does prudence lie? --
Croesus and Cassandra --
A piece of the sky is missing --
Ambush : the warning of the world --
Escape from ambush --
Religion and science : an alliance --
The common enemy --
Abortion : is it possible to be both "pro-life" and pro-choice"? (cowritten with Ann Druyan) --
The rules of the game --
Gettysburg and now (cowritten with Ann Druyan) --
The twentieth century --
In the valley of the shadow.

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Billions & billions

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Carl Sagan.

Abstract:

In Billions and Billions, Carl Sagan demonstrates his incredible ability to cut through the jargon and misinformation to help us make sense of the world around us as it prepares for the challenges of the coming millennium.